Silver, Sean,

The Mind Is a Collection : Case Studies in Eighteenth-Century Thought / Sean Silver, Sean Silver. - 1 online resource - Material Texts .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface : Welcome To The Museum -- Introduction -- Case 1. Metaphor -- Case 2. Design -- Case 3. Digression -- Case 4. Inwardness -- Case 5. Conception -- Case 6. Dispossession -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments

The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory of the mind from a material point of view, examining the metaphors for mental activity that invoked the material activity of collection.

9780812291568

10.9783/9780812291568 doi


--History--17th century--Case studies.
--History--18th century--Case studies.
--Curatorship--History--England--London


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